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Author Southam, B. C.

Title Jane Austen's literary manuscripts : a study of the novelist's development through the surviving papers / by B.C. Southam.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Athlone Press, 2001.

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Edition New ed.
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 159 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Continuum studies in Jane Austen
Continuum studies in Jane Austen.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION (2001); PREFACE; REFERENCES; LIST OF MANUSCRIPTS USED; 1. The Writing of the Juvenilia; 2. A Critical Study of the Juvenilia; 3. Lady Susan and the Lost Originals 1795-1800; 4. The Watsons; 5. The Plan of a Novel; 6. The Two Chapters of Persuasion; 7. The Last Work, Sanditon; 8. Sir Charles Grandison; APPENDIX. Theories of Composition for Mansfield Park and Emma; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; P; R; S; T; W.
Summary Jane Austen''s Literary Manuscripts remains the definitive account of the novelist''s surviving papers. These date from 1787 to 1817, from the first beginning to the veyr end of her writing career. Their evidence considerably deepens our understanding of the imaginative process that stands behind the composition of the great novels. In Sanditon, the last work, we see the promise of a further and startling development in her art. The influence of her childhood reading and home life is considered in the first chapter, and a further new chapter examines Sir Charles Grandison, a work newly attribu.
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Subject Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism, Textual.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Criticism, Textual.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Manuscripts.
Manuscripts.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Technique.
Technique.
Fiction -- Technique.
Fiction -- Technique.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Manuscripts.
Other Form: Print version: Southam, B.C. Jane Austen's literary manuscripts. New ed. London ; New York : Athlone Press, 2001 (DLC) 2006287045
ISBN 9780826425928 (electronic book)
0826425925 (electronic book)
0826490700
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